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years before; no doubt prescribing with such precision as this is 

 all important in the human subject, while it is well. nigh impossi- 

 ble among the lower animals; still it is gratifying to know by ex- 

 perience that cases of this description do yield to medical treat- 

 ment, because the surgical procedures now in vogue for the removal 

 of cataract cannot possibly be resorted to among our patients, and 

 even if they could, we should never be adequately remunerated 

 for performing them. 



Treatment. — Being satisfied that a horse is the subject of a 

 cataract WQ should recommend the daily administration, first thing 

 in the morning before any food or water are given, of Nat rum 

 nmriaticum 12, twenty drops; continue this course of treatment 

 for a week, and then discontinue for a week; alternating in this 

 manner for one month; then have the eye examined by an inde- 

 pendent oculist with a view to a report of the state of the eye, 

 after which resume again; if at the end of two months no im- 

 provement is apparent, we should resort to Silicea 30, twenty grains 

 once daily for similar periods. Other remedies that have been 

 recommended for cataractous eyes are Belladonna after an attack 

 of ophthalmia; Calcarea carb. when the animal is naturall}' ema- 

 ciated and poor; S ulphiir \vhen chronic eruptions of the skin are 

 present; Mercurius, Conium and Phosphorus, the selection depend- 

 ing of course upon any special symptoms to which these remedies 

 are chiefly applicable in addition to those connected with the eyes 

 -more immediately. Entropium or inversion of the eyelids, and 

 ECTROPiUM or eversion of the eyelids, are occa.sionally, but rarely, 

 observed in the horse; when they do so occur, the services of an 

 experienced veterinary surgeon should be called in to perform the 

 necessary operation for alleviation of these respective conditions. 



